NOTE: This article is out of date and no longer applies. We are researching alternaitves and will post them here when available.
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Hey, let's face it, bad luck can strike the best of us, so if you find yourself in a position where your WSUS...

Hi everyone, Joao Madureira here. During the course of this week we saw an increase of cases installing Knowledge Base article KB 2720211 . What follows are some guidelines we’ve established when facing some problems installing this KB.
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I just wanted to let you know about a couple issues we are seeing on our support team related to detection and install issues for MS10-090 ( KB2416400 ). Please note that these are preliminary troubleshooting steps that we have found in our investigation...

Sometimes you may find that it’s necessary to move your WSUS server from one machine to another. If this is you then here are the steps to get this done: 1. Install WSUS on the new Server just as you had installed before. For more information on...

A common issue we seem to get calls on again and again is the issue where a customer has WSUS configured but when he or she goes to the admin console some clients appear and others do not. You may even notice that it seems to change on a random basis...

We're getting a few calls on this one so I thought it would be worth a mention here. Thanks to Joe Tindale for bringing this to my attention: ======== Issue: You try to deploy KB9432729 - Information about new Group Policy preferences in Windows...

UPDATE – 12/4/2012: The System Center Configuration Manger team has released a hotfix ( http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2783466 ) to address the re-downloading and redistributing issues described by this post. To minimize further impact, it is strongly...

Microsoft has released an update for Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) 3.0 Service Pack 2 (SP2). This article includes information about the contents of the update and how to obtain the update. Issues that are fixed This update lets servers that are...

Hello, my name is Joe Tindale and I am a Support Escalation Engineer with the WSUS team. As some of you may know we recently released some driver updates that resulted in an extra ~12,000 updates flowing to your WSUS servers. At the root of this...

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where the \Content volume on your WSUS server is running out of space but you had no idea how to change where the updates are stored locally? Or maybe the disk where updates are stored fails and the replacement...

Here's an interesting issue recently discovered by Joe Tindale, one of our top WSUS Support Escalation Engineers out in North Carolina: ======== Issue: When trying to synchronize a WSUS 3.0 SP1 computer, it may not sync and progress may remain at 0%....

You know how after you’ve been using WSUS for a while and you go into the admin console, then to the Synchronization node, you can end up waiting and waiting for the list to enumerate? This is the list I’m talking about: Have you ever wished you...

Today we provided advance notification to customers that we will release an out-of-band security update to address the vulnerability discussed in Security Advisory 2416728 . The update is scheduled for release tomorrow, Tuesday, September 28, 2010 at...

Here's a cool tip and a cool tool that was sent to me by Joe Tindale , one of the top Support Escalation Engineers in our WSUS group. If you find that your WSUS clients are not sending status updates back to the server then this is something you'll want...

Here’s an issue we have been seeing lately that I wanted to let you know about. If you've just rolled out some new clients and are seeing these errors then this should explain why. ======== Issue: Newly built clients may fail to sync...

Joe Tindale, one of our top gun WSUS Support Escalation Engineers, recently wrote up a good explanation on why the updates offered by Windows Update or Microsoft Update may differ from the number reported by WSUS as being 'Needed'. If you've ever seen...

Here's an interesting problem Mike Johnson, one of our top Support Escalation Engineers in the WSUS group found. If you upgrade to WSUS 3.0 SP1 and notice a problem with your clients then this may be what you're running into: ======== Problem: After...

The WSUS client agent may not report to the WSUS server for many reasons. Here I'll go through some of the reasons and how you can troubleshoot the process. There are also some situations you may run into where some or all clients stop reporting to the...

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We’ve had a few questions regarding critical updates and WSUSSCN2.CAB so I thought I’d publish a quick explainer in case you were wondering the same.
Question: Is security advisory KB2719615 going to be added for Microsoft...

As explained in KB 931125 , a package that was intended only for client operating systems was also made available to servers through WSUS and Windows Update. This package is designed to update the store of trusted root certificates, and adds a large number...

Here’s a new Knowledge Base article we published. This one talks about an issue where the Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) console crashes when browsing for updates and generates an Event ID 7053. ===== Symptoms The Windows Server Update Services...

Example Scenario: You just got some new servers and patch them online against Microsoft Update before pointing them to your WSUS server for updates. Symptom: In the WindowsUpdate.log you may see the following. “WARNING: Skipping scan, self-update check...

After starting this blog I realized that we have quite a few people who are new to WSUS and they all seemed eager for docs and labs and whatnot to help them get started. In an effort to help in that regard I put together a couple links that should...